From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.7 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:33:59 -0700 Message-ID: <7vbou1oe20.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Kernel To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 01 00:34:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R9ler-000145-FQ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:34:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758610Ab1I3WeH (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:34:07 -0400 Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.35]:59196 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758452Ab1I3WeC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:34:02 -0400 Received: from smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D45C6719; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:34:02 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to :subject:cc:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=sasl; bh=nlGn6QgkkNXsMT2urAHMTaJKjko=; b=SpwiaGlOfGRzjFneVnV6mGvugfZS 5oNYH2MNfs2rcNMqVEuw5S1bV8OwfaVPg2iPdzrr992rUOxUW4qKRzeTVOGffpNI 2b47R4OWtvv/MmZv9KoHeprEBsKgPqr3tHBNVSXsE8NMiwFY4nxJCGcNftH4ZQmn 0o8Dtzi6pdYRNyo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:subject :cc:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b= LQJPEtsTohxzncGNDJJ8hD4VEl9nseVwBjxTNw/yVgGsSp1bR+4uzHhZn33tL8Sw vKCvFZ1LHkIlhXKZIh4MySjuyHKh+23moTWxkC7Xie1END3w5j9B87CvusfQA7Gj nzjovVuRSGzynF90D0o54fH0QpO36QoBPyNO7QbjiFg= Received: from b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E396718; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:34:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by b-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E92016717; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:34:00 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 4B372332-EBB4-11E0-8F93-9DB42E706CDE-77302942!b-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The latest feature release Git 1.7.7 is available. The release tarballs are found at: http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list and their SHA-1 checksums are: bbf85bd767ca6b7e9caa1489bb4ba7ec64e0ab35 git-1.7.7.tar.gz 33183db94fd25e001bd8a9fd6696b992f61e28d8 git-htmldocs-1.7.7.tar.gz 75d3cceb46f7a46eeb825033dff76af5eb5ea3d9 git-manpages-1.7.7.tar.gz Also the following public repositories all have a copy of the v1.7.7 tag and the master branch that the tag points at: url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/ url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core url = https://github.com/gitster/git The release tag and the tarballs can be verified with my GPG key if anybody is so inclined. To get my public key: $ git fetch git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git refs/tags/junio-gpg-pub $ git rev-parse FETCH_HEAD 680865b90b18efbc9402ea979adf0302c6dfe72e $ git cat-file blob FETCH_HEAD | gpg --import and then make sure that you got my key by checking the output from "gpg --fingerprint", which should contain these lines: pub 1024D/F3119B9A 2004-01-28 Key fingerprint = 3565 2A26 2040 E066 C9A7 4A7D C0C6 D9A4 F311 9B9A uid Junio C Hamano Git v1.7.7 Release Notes ======================== Updates since v1.7.6 -------------------- * The scripting part of the codebase is getting prepared for i18n/l10n. * Interix, Cygwin and Minix ports got updated. * Various updates to git-p4 (in contrib/), fast-import, and git-svn. * Gitweb learned to read from /etc/gitweb-common.conf when it exists, before reading from gitweb_config.perl or from /etc/gitweb.conf (this last one is read only when per-repository gitweb_config.perl does not exist). * Various codepaths that invoked zlib deflate/inflate assumed that these functions can compress or uncompress more than 4GB data in one call on platforms with 64-bit long, which has been corrected. * Git now recognizes loose objects written by other implementations that use a non-standard window size for zlib deflation (e.g. Agit running on Android with 4kb window). We used to reject anything that was not deflated with 32kb window. * Interaction between the use of pager and coloring of the output has been improved, especially when a command that is not built-in was involved. * "git am" learned to pass the "--exclude=" option through to underlying "git apply". * You can now feed many empty lines before feeding an mbox file to "git am". * "git archive" can be told to pass the output to gzip compression and produce "archive.tar.gz". * "git bisect" can be used in a bare repository (provided that the test you perform per each iteration does not need a working tree, of course). * The length of abbreviated object names in "git branch -v" output now honors the core.abbrev configuration variable. * "git check-attr" can take relative paths from the command line. * "git check-attr" learned an "--all" option to list the attributes for a given path. * "git checkout" (both the code to update the files upon checking out a different branch and the code to checkout a specific set of files) learned to stream the data from object store when possible, without having to read the entire contents of a file into memory first. An earlier round of this code that is not in any released version had a large leak but now it has been plugged. * "git clone" can now take a "--config key=value" option to set the repository configuration options that affect the initial checkout. * "git commit ..." now lets you feed relative pathspecs that refer to outside your current subdirectory. * "git diff --stat" learned a --stat-count option to limit the output of a diffstat report. * "git diff" learned a "--histogram" option to use a different diff generation machinery stolen from jgit, which might give better performance. * "git diff" had a weird worst case behaviour that can be triggered when comparing files with potentially many places that could match. * "git fetch", "git push" and friends no longer show connection errors for addresses that couldn't be connected to when at least one address succeeds (this is arguably a regression but a deliberate one). * "git grep" learned "--break" and "--heading" options, to let users mimic the output format of "ack". * "git grep" learned a "-W" option that shows wider context using the same logic used by "git diff" to determine the hunk header. * Invoking the low-level "git http-fetch" without "-a" option (which git itself never did---normal users should not have to worry about this) is now deprecated. * The "--decorate" option to "git log" and its family learned to highlight grafted and replaced commits. * "git rebase master topci" no longer spews usage hints after giving the "fatal: no such branch: topci" error message. * The recursive merge strategy implementation got a fairly large fix for many corner cases that may rarely happen in real world projects (it has been verified that none of the 16000+ merges in the Linux kernel history back to v2.6.12 is affected with the corner case bugs this update fixes). * "git stash" learned an "--include-untracked option". * "git submodule update" used to stop at the first error updating a submodule; it now goes on to update other submodules that can be updated, and reports the ones with errors at the end. * "git push" can be told with the "--recurse-submodules=check" option to refuse pushing of the supermodule, if any of its submodules' commits hasn't been pushed out to their remotes. * "git upload-pack" and "git receive-pack" learned to pretend that only a subset of the refs exist in a repository. This may help a site to put many tiny repositories into one repository (this would not be useful for larger repositories as repacking would be problematic). * "git verify-pack" has been rewritten to use the "index-pack" machinery that is more efficient in reading objects in packfiles. * test scripts for gitweb tried to run even when CGI-related perl modules are not installed; they now exit early when the latter are unavailable. Also contains various documentation updates and minor miscellaneous changes. Fixes since v1.7.6 ------------------ Unless otherwise noted, all fixes in the 1.7.6.X maintenance track are included in this release. * "git branch -m" and "git checkout -b" incorrectly allowed the tip of the branch that is currently checked out updated.